Pain

Getting a good night’s sleep was very difficult before my shoulder surgery. During the night when I adjusted my position towards my sore shoulder it would wake me up. No one should see 3:30 AM as often as I did....

My daughter refuses to play the pain game. Throughout her experience dealing with surgery and the intermittent flare-ups associated with Crohn’s disease, she has often been asked to rate her pain. “One” for “it barely...

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lynda Shrager

Lynda Shrager began navigating through the mystifying maze that is our national health care system on the day, more than 19 years ago, when she and her daughter were simultaneously diagnosed with...read more